A457 crash in Sandwell on 15 October 2025 at 13:05 involving a Land Rover Discovery
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Wednesday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51117, longitude -2.03193, in the B69 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rowley Regis. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tividale, Sandwell, B69 2NZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201654879
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 457
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 April 2002.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 11 April 2002
11 m awayRef 200220K045902
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 16 April 2007
47 m awayRef 200720K039002
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 16 August 2015
47 m awayRef 201520K011495
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 29 May 2005
47 m awayRef 200520K055802
Serious
Vespa (Douglas) crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 29 November 2001
56 m awayRef 200120K207202
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 13 June 2013
69 m awayRef 201320K007093
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Land Rover Discovery)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2025201654879 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sandwell road accident statistics for 2025.